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Michele Claibourn
I am a research director – a political scientist, data scientist, community-engaged scholar, and senior administrator – and professor with 20 years of experience teaching, leading, and managing research and data science teams.
My own work centers on action-based research, using the tools of data science to promote accountable governance, make visible racial and other social inequities, and impact public policy and movement building.
Professional Experience
Leadership
Envision, design, and lead research projects with academic and community partners seeking to understand racial and other disparities and to develop policy responses. Manage multiple projects and train and mentor students engaging in community-engaged data science.
Founded StatLab, a data science consulting service for members of the UVA community. Built a new division within the library to support the growing data science research community at UVA, recruiting, hiring, and managing a team with diverse skills and talents..
Have managed a team of 10-12 full-time staff, 3-4 graduate fellows, and research teams across mulitple collaborations on a range of programmatic and research projects.
Director of Equitable Analysis
The Equity Center, University of Virginia
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2021
- Faculty, Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy, 2021-present
- Faculty Affiliate & Lead Data Scientist, Global Policy Center, 2019-present
- Co-Director, Community Policy, Analytics & Strategy Lab, 2018-present
Director, StatLab and Research Data Services
UVA Library, University of Virginia
N/A
2015 - 2013
- Associate Director, Data Science Institute, 2014-2016 (partial buyout)
Data Scientist
Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service, University of Virginia
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2013 - 2011
Assistant Professor
Department of Politics, University of Virginia
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2011 - 2004
Assistant Professor
Department of Politics, University of Oklahoma
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2004 - 2002
Education
- Statistical modeling and data science
- R, RStudio, Shiny
- Data wrangling and visualization
- Stata and SPSS
- Text analytics
- GitHub and reproducibility
- Some Python and SQL
- Qualitative methods
PhD., Political Science
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Madison, WI
2002 - 1996
B.A, Political Science
Rice University
Houston, TX
1993 - 1989
Teaching and Mentoring
Graduate Courses
University of Virginia and University of Oklahoma
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2021 - 2002
- Imagining Equitable Policy, Public Interest Data Ethics & Practice, Data Visualization, Saving Lives with Data, Text as Data, Applied Causal Inference, General Linear Models, Linear Models, Applied Time Series, Mixed-Effects Models/Longitudinal Analysis, Introduction to Statistical Analysis
Undergraduate Courses
University of Virginia and University of Oklahoma
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2020 - 2002
- Project First Gen +, Research Design & Analysis, The Presidency and the Public, Media & Political Communication, Political Pscyology & Decision Making, Citizen Competence in American Democracy, Introduction to American Politics
Select StatLab Workshops
University of Virginia
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2020 - 2013
- Six-part series on Data Science in R, Multiple Imputation, Cluster Analysis, Duration Models, Matching Methods, Mixed-Effects Models,Sentiment Analysis, Topic Modeling, Text Classification, Data Wrangling, Linear Modeling
REU Mentor
School of Data Science, UVA
N/A
2019
Selected Publications and Presentations
Teaching and Writing
20+ years of experience teaching statistics and data science methods, policy, and political behavior to undergraduate and graduate students.
Design data workshop series for student and adult learning communities, including recruiting and mentoring instructors, marketing and assessment, and contributing to select topics.
Experienced writer in multiple formats, from university press books and peer-reviewed journal articles, to action-oriented reports for local and state agencies, educational materials, and informal writing.
Skilled in communicating about data, technology, and policy to stakeholders, advocates, and learners.
Last updated on 2021-12-13.
Albemarle County Equity Profile: Centering Equity in Evaluating Well-Being & Quality of LIfe for Albemarle County Resident
The Equity Center, A UVA Democracy Initiative for the Redress of Inequity through Community-Engaged Scholarship and the Albemarle County Office of Equity and Inclusion
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2021
- With Sam Powers, Michael Salgueiro, Siri Russell, Barbara Brown Wilson, and Alissa Ujie Diamond,
Charlottesville Foster Care Study
Report to the Charlottesville Department of Social Services
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2019
- With Charlotte McClintock and the Public Interest Data Lab
Webinar, Mapping Inequity: Partnering for Data-Informed Decision Making
International City/County Management Association
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2021
Panelist, Racial Equity and Technology
Public Interest Technology-University Network
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2020
Panel Chair and Moderator
Data & Democracy, School of Data Science Datapalooza, University of Virginia
N/A
2019
Homework and Hubris: Preparing for Community-Engaged Courses
Innovations in Teaching Pedagogy Summit, University of Virginia
N/A
2019
- With Paul Martin
Confederate monuments and the history of lynching in the American South: An empirical examination
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Oct 2021
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2021
- With Kyshia Henderson, Samuel Powers, Jazmin L. Brown-Iannuzzi, and Sophie Trawalter
Citizen Participation and Congressional Responsiveness: New Evidence for Why Participation Matters
Legislative Studies Quarterly 38: 59-82
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2013
- With Paul Martin
Creating Constituencies: Presidential Campaigns, Selective Mobilization, and the Scope of Conflict
Political Behavior 34: 27-56
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2012
- With Paul Martin
Presidential Campaigns and Presidential Accountability
University of Illinois Press, Series on Democracy, Free Enterprise, and the Rule of Law
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2011
Gender Differences in Citizen-Level Democratic Citizenship: Evidence from the Comparative Study of Electoral Systems
Presented to the International Political Science Association (2000), the Midwest Political Science Association (2001), and the Conference on Comparative Study of Electoral Systems (2002)
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2002 - 2000
- With Virginia Sapiro
- 2001 Winner, Sophonisba Breckenridge Award for best paper on Women & Politics, Midwest Political Science Association Annual Meeting